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...Bingo-Bango-Bungo. With his new riches, Billy began to gild the Rose. He acquired a fancy flat, a new wardrobe, a valet, an ornamental but vicious green macaw. In 1924, he got still another source of income: the Backstage Club, a little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired...
...Finally-bingo!-a shiny new sedan piled smack into the mound. Satisfied onlookers crowded around to console the driver, who stood in the sand and held his smashed nose...
Plungers & Necklines. Triumphantly, last week, he opened for business. Thousands of suckers who had queued up at shoreside water-taxi landings stood shoulder to shoulder all night long on the Lux's casino deck. The ship's bingo corner, its 14 crap tables, 150 slot machines, twelve roulette wheels, five poker games, were busy until dawn. Order was kept by 26 polite, tough "masters-at-arms," i.e., seafaring bouncers. A band played and lush ladies with plunging necklines wandered about selling cigarets. Tony expansively predicted that nobody could touch...
...says no bingo, we won't have bingo." The law had already said so in Alberta and Manitoba. Spang on Attorney General Blackwell's announcement came word that British Columbia would follow suit...
...lush prizes: a $15,000 ranch or fruit farm "in sunny British Columbia"; a 1946 Lincoln Zephyr; an all-expense trip to Europe or $1,000 in cash; a $12,000 house; $500 Persian lamb coats; refrigerators, washing machines and scads of smaller consolation prizes. Among the most successful bingo operators in Ontario was the Lions Club of Ottawa, which has drawn as many as 8,000 participants to its monthly game in the barnlike Auditorium...